Rediscovering the old RIT

(To start this off...) Overtime, obviously things change. We grow up, new buildings are built, and landscapes change...nothing is permanent in life, the same can be said about a place. In the 1960's RIT moved from its downtown, small campus, to the one we are in today, outside of downtown, and very large. Where RIT used to lay downtown, now has highway 490 running through it. Recently, I came across an article from npr about finding old photographs and finding their locations, and then comparing the two. http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/01/looking_backwards.html

This picture is taken in area that used to the central hub of campus. From the photo, it doesn't per-say look like this photo really belongs in this place, because the building that its taken in front of got a new face lift/makeover. Today the building is Rochester's public schools administrative building, then it was the clark building, the central hub of campus student life. The area that RIT used to be located was in the third ward, which was a fairly well to do area, but now when you walk around its run down... not the worst Rochester... but for sure not the best. And walking around this area made me think of what downtown would have been like if RIT stayed put, was RIT the demise of downtown Rochster? Or if RIT stayed, sure there would have been a major highway through the middle of it, but would the city still be as rundown all around it as it currently still is? There are no answers to these questions but for sure its something to think about...

slow food

I really hope that all of this legible, it's supposed to say Slow food. I'm pretty excited about this!! Each letter was photographed seperately, then I composited it together in photoshop
The shots below are from the local farmers market in Rochester from this past saturday

We're are living in a macro world, and I am a Macro girl

I am currently taking editorial photography. In this class the photographers work directly with a design major to create a layout that would go into a magazine, and that is exactly what our class is doing, making a magazine filled with our work! The goal of the class, is not only to make great work, but to get it into that magazine. The article that my designer and I are working on is about the slow food movement. The slow food movement was started in Italy in 1989 in efforts to ban chain food restaurants such as McDonalds and Burger King. Today Slow food has developed into a movement that is about preserving the local foods of that cultural region. Supporting your local stores, farms, and small businesses are all apart of this movement.

So, for this project, in order to keep up with the slow food movement, my designer and I went to the local Rochester Food Market... and it was amazing! Fresh food every way you looked and at incredible prices, we bought probably $100 worth of food for just over $30! We got, snap peas, carrots, parsley, mushrooms, lettuce, cabbage, artichokes, asparagus, sweet potatoes, string beans, brussel sprouts, radishes, scallion, tomatoes, homemade pasta, garlic, red peppers, jalapeno peppers, turnips and pears (the lonely fruit of the bunch). From going to the market, i never want to go a food store again for fresh food, at the market you can get not only vegetables, fruits and pasta, but fresh milk, eggs, cider, meats (chicken, fish, pork, beef), but also fresh bakery goods. the only reason to go to the food store would be for snacks.

Sterling Silver Silverware... say that 10 times fast!

Once again, it's been a little while since an update... but that's what happens when you have no time. Anyway, so today I set some time aside for myself to do some personal work. I have these old sterling silver silverware pieces with me up at school that I've been wanting to shoot for a while, and well I did. These are some of the (unedited) outcomes of today:

I decided to gel all of the lights, and each shot, I feel has a completely different feeling/mood to it. It always feels good to be back in the studio...